1. ICH Joint meeting of the Subsidiary Body and Consultative Body for the 2013 cycle 4 and 5 April 2013 Room XI, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

2. ICH What is technical assessment? Decision 7.COM 11 paragraph 18 (paraphrased): a.A response is provided in each and every section; b.Maximum word counts are respected; c.Evidence of free, prior and informed consent in English or French, as well as the language of the community; d.Evidence of inclusion in an inventory (may be a functioning hyperlink); e.Edited video of not more than ten minutes is provided, subtitled in English or French.

3. ICH What requirements are not part of technical assessment? 7.COM and previous Committees also adopted several instructions to States that are not technically disqualifying but are subject to the assessment of CB or SB, e.g.:  Avoid inappropriate language  Demonstrate mutual respect  Avoid copy-and-paste  Provide information in proper place  Describe nature, characteristics of inventory  Etc.

4. ICH Transversal issues  Created for second Subsidiary Body in 2010; updated annually since  Evaluators found that certain issues arose for multiple nominations; they wished to apply consistent responses to recurrent situations  Sometimes, one evaluator had a position in several written evaluations that was not shared by the body; such outlying positions could be resolved for multiple files at once

5. ICH Transversal issues  Transversal issues fed ‘part C’ of the reports and became advice to submitting States  After advising the same thing several times, SB and/or CB proposed they figure as decisions of the Committee, rather than simple advice  Committee Members themselves also identified issues transcending any single nomination that they wished to formulate as advice or requirements for submitting States  Constitutes a vade mecum of the emerging jurisprudence of the Convention

6. ICH ConventionOperational DirectivesDecisions of Committee Reports of Consultative Body and Subsidiary Body

7. ICH Contents and structure of the document  Working methods, principles and technical characteristics  Criteria – Urgent Safeguarding and Representative Lists, Best Safeguarding Practices and International Assistance  Cross-border elements, multinational nominations and other topics Most of the document refers to the criteria and how they have been interpreted

8. ICH Technical characteristics To be evaluated by bodies: Overall quality and completeness of information Inappropriate vocabulary Misplaced information Coherency and consistency of information; conflicting information Repetition of texts among different files (copy- and-paste issue) Linguistic quality

9. ICH Criterion U.5/R.5 (for example) To be evaluated by bodies: Conformity with Article 11 (i.e. community and NGO involvement) Conformity with Article 12 (i.e. updating) System and quality of inventory / avoid simply listing Treated by Secretariat: Evidence of inclusion

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